The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-07-14

r. Woods & Sons, who have leased
the Cleveland farm just beyond the
= lower bridge, have as fine a field or
corn as can be found in central Min
: nesota.
A colored man armed with banjo
n was in town last week making more
or less music. He got drunk and
!. was landed in the lookup, but was
released on promise of skipping out.
n Andrew j. Smith and family, after
leaving Long Branch, visited the
r. Catskills, in New York, and were
quartered at the Hotel Kaaterskill
last week.
The Maplewood club will give
formal opening at the club house on
;, Friday next week. The Rockaway
9 will run at frequent intervals
= throughout the day.
: A. o. Hubbard has just perfected
an opera chair combining more
} good points than anything for like
purpose in market. 1t is an econo.
mizer of space and as easy as could
be desired.
Charlie Fish is doing thriving
business in supplying contractors
on the Duluth, Huron and Denver
road with machinery for grading.
S He made trip to st. Paul and Min
n eapolis during the week.
? Rev. w. c. Cummings of st. Cloud
was in town on Friday and Saturday,
the guest of Rev. j. F. Hamilton.
, He came up to attend the installa-
ton of officers in the chapter.
5 Mrs. Johnson and three daughters
from Kansas, are guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. G. Foster. Mrs. johnson is
the mother of Mrs. Foster. She and
two of the daughters have visit
ed Sank Centre before.
A man at work on the Duluth,
Huron and Denver grade, south of
the village, was run over by wheel
scraper, and suffered a fracture Of
the leg. He was brought to th is
village for treatment.
The Metropolitan Hotel property
of St. Paul has been sold at auction
, for S64 900, Geo. Benz and Arnold
Kalman were the purchasers. To
what use it will be put has not been
determined.
A. o. Hubbard has purchased the
Cannon property, corner Third and
Nin:h-sts., of A. q. Whitney, con-
sideration $4,000. Mr.. Hubbard will
remove to the house as soon as it is
, vacated by Alex. Tully.
Tie school building is undergoing
extensive repairs. New floors have
been laid iii two or three rooms, and
the old part of the building has been
reshlngled. A coat of paint would |
improve the old part of the build.
ing.
The bridge on Main-st. has been
undergoing repairs, the cross-tim-
berS having decayed so AS to render
it unsafe. What is needed is a good
iron bridge in place Of the antiquat-
ed structure which does service |
there at present.
The saw mill of Bridgman & Pen
dergast at Burnhamville, will COM
plete its seasons work in the course |
of ten days or two weeks after a
most satisfactory run. 1t made d
record of six hundred feet in six
minutes the OTTER day.
It is a delightful drive down the
Melrcse road on bright and breezy
day. ALI along the road crops are
looking we'll, wheat promising Il fair
crop, corn better than the average,
oats beginning to develop tinge of
gold and all promising an early har-
vest.
There will be a public debate at
the Academy on Saturday evening
next, the question being ResotUed
that the Democratic party has done
more for the United States than the
Republican party. Professors Cogau
and O'Connell have been assigned the
affirmative and E. r. Lynch and
Frank Taylor the negative. The
debate will be interesting and in
Structive.
D. II. Jackson has rebuilt his house
IN lower town. and now has one of
Ght ulOSG 1ufItlnS tHu dGtldCGlfc
places in that part of the village.
BY the way that part of town has
been greatly improved in many par
+ ticulars during the past year.
Crop estimates vary widely. The
opinion is expressed by some OBJ
servant farmers that there will be as
much wheat to the acre as there was
last season, while others think it
will fall from twenty-five to forty
per cent. below it. Safety lies be-
tween the two estimates.
f. R. Evans has sustained another
, injury A scaffold broke with him,
while at work on J. M: Reid's place,
and he fell distance of ten feet.
D. Wraight was at work with him and
was injured in a less degree. Mr..
, Evans requires two crutches to assist
him in walking.
John M. Simmons, we'll and favor
, ably known as an expert book-keeper,
has accepted conditional position in
the First National Bank, TO succeed
Fred Hoerr. Mr.. Simmons is
fine gentleman, accurate and quick,
, we'll verscd in matters of business
and business paper, and will doubt
less give satisfaction.
Mr.. A. L. Hatch, who purchased
the.Virgil Thomson farm and added
to it the tract of wild land west of